[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: w32api-{headers,runtime}-4.0.4-1 (x86/x86_64)

2015-07-24 Thread JonY
Now released for both 32bit and 64bit Cygwin: w32api-headers-4.0.4-1 w32api-runtime-4.0.4-1 Based on mingw-w64-v4.0.4. Main changes include fixes to the tchar.h header so it can be used with Cygwin applications. Note: 4.0.3 was never released due to a bug in headers installation routine. As of

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: stunnel 5.20-1

2015-07-24 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of stunnel, 5.20-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a minor upstream release. See http://www.stunnel.org/sdf_ChangeLog.html for the list of changes since the previous release, version 5.09. stunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections in

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lftp 4.6.3a-1

2015-07-24 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of lftp, 4.6.3a-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a minor upstream release. See http://lftp.yar.ru/news.html for the list of changes. lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program and ftp/http/bittorrent client. It supports multiple network protocols. It uses the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: mintty 2.1.2

2015-07-24 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 24.07.2015 um 15:18 schrieb Houder: Hi Thomas, Maybe setsid() should not be called if fork() fails... Could you try this please: if (daemonize && !isatty(0)) { int pid = fork(); if (pid > 0) exit(0);// exit parent process if (pid == 0) setsid(); // detach child proc

Re: Cygwin ssh and Windows authentication

2015-07-24 Thread Jarek
On 2015-07-22 23:46, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Jarek! So why are they not needed as your comment doesn't really explain that Read 1.7.35 changelog. In short, username resolution was completely reworked, thanks to Corinna, and Cygwin now directly address domain controllers for it. OK so

cannot find crti.o error, while building gcc cross compiler:

2015-07-24 Thread sindhu selvam
I am trying to build a GCC (version 4.9.3)cross compiler on my windows machine using Cygwin. I am using the source package that came along with cygwin. I have already built binutils version 2.25 and installed, this is through cygwin as well. binutils configuration used: ../binutils-x.y.z/configu

Re: db_home setting in nsswitch.conf is ignored.

2015-07-24 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]! > Suggestion for the Cygwin developers: > What about a file in /etc that contains contain environmental variables > that sets cygwin-specific variables and overrides anything in Windows' > environment? You can do it yourself by creating /etc/environm

Python bindings for cygclang.dll causing segmentation fault on 64 bit system

2015-07-24 Thread Brad Elliott
Hi there, I'm running into difficulties which I think are caused by cygclang.dll. The problem only seems to impact the 64 bit version of Cygwin. The 32 bit version of Cygwin (on my 64 bit machine) does not crash. I tried running the same thing on Windows 7 and Windows 8 but both OSes are impact

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.17.2-1 (TEST)

2015-07-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 09/07/2015 17:30, Jon TURNEY wrote: The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** xorg-server-*1.17.2-1 These packages contain XWin and the other X.Org X11 servers. [..] These packages are currently marked as a test release because they contain changes to code cr

Ok, just a request for explanation/clarification then ...

2015-07-24 Thread Houder
Hi Corinna, I hesitate to ask ... yes, I am aware you have enough on your plate. If you cannot explain the phenomenon from the top of your head, let it rest, please. In an attempt to understand what needs to be "done" to mintty, I decided to use the "setsid" utility (util-linux) to invoke mintt

Re: Applications no longer launching from xdg

2015-07-24 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
This seems to be the real error, when I try to start an xterm from the xdg menu: executing 'xterm', pid 11044 pid 11044 exited with status b What is status b? And the results of trying to view the log file (same error status) executing 'xterm -title '/cygdrive/D/Home/.xsession-errors' -e less

Re: Applications no longer launching from xdg

2015-07-24 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > If you can reproduce this problem, you could always examine the > ~/.xsession-errors file directly. Here it is. There "Can't create dir" messages have been there all along. The ones regarding "Failed to connect to socket" may be the problem.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: mintty 2.1.2

2015-07-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 24 15:18, Houder wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > >>> mintty 2.1.2 is an update in response to a number of crash reports under > >>> unclear circumstances; > > To resolve this discomforting issue which I still cannot reproduce, > > could please those who experience a crash report some details about

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: mintty 2.1.2

2015-07-24 Thread Houder
> As I wrote 'and I asked myself', I was wondering about something like: > 'getpid() != 1' s/getpid/getppid/ Henri -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: h

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: mintty 2.1.2

2015-07-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 24 13:40, Thomas Wolff wrote: > I wanted to check ttyname() for "/cons" but surprisingly ttyname() was null > when started from cygwin console; Isn't mintty a "subsystem=windows" application which is supposed to attach or create a console at some later point? Maybe that's the reason. Off

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: mintty 2.1.2

2015-07-24 Thread Houder
Hi Thomas, >>> mintty 2.1.2 is an update in response to a number of crash reports under >>> unclear circumstances; > To resolve this discomforting issue which I still cannot reproduce, > could please those who experience a crash report some details about > their calling environment? > Could the is

Re: Minor issues with Cygwin/X FAQ webpage

2015-07-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 21/07/2015 15:36, Mouse wrote: In FAQ item 1.9, [...] Surely those list addresses shouldn't _all_ be the same...? This piece of text obviously doesn't make much sense after the search-and-replace which happened when the cygwin-xfree list was deprecated. Ah! I wondered how that had happened

Re: Applications no longer launching from xdg

2015-07-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 20/07/2015 06:06, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: I installed Windows 10 over the weekend ("RTM" release 10240, 64-bit, Pro). Cygwin, X server and XDG were working fine until sometime Sunday afternoon. Suddenly, I could not launch xterms, but still could from the old Xwin icon in the system notifica

RE: db_home setting in nsswitch.conf is ignored.

2015-07-24 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Suggestion for the Cygwin developers: What about a file in /etc that contains contain environmental variables that sets cygwin-specific variables and overrides anything in Windows' environment? It would also make it possible to clone an installation by copying - no need to modify the environment.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: mintty 2.1.2

2015-07-24 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 24.07.2015 09:50, Houder wrote: mintty 2.1.2 is an update in response to a number of crash reports under unclear circumstances; To resolve this discomforting issue which I still cannot reproduce, could please those who experience a crash report some details about their calling environment? C

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: mintty 2.1.2

2015-07-24 Thread Houder
> mintty 2.1.2 is an update in response to a number of crash reports under > unclear circumstances; > mintty only detaches from the caller's terminal if the option -D is given Thank you, Thomas! I extracted mintty.exe (and named it mintty-v212.exe) from mintty-2.1.2-0.tar.xz, and placed it in /b